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“Over the last seven years, Disney/Pixar has ruled the Oscar animation field with nine nominations and five wins. But you’d probably be surprised to learn who comes in second: Not DreamWorks Animation or Illumination or Blue Sky or Laika, but a small, eight-year-old New York-based company called GKIDS.

Since it launched in 2008, the company has landed a startling eight nominations with the kind of films that fly under the radar right up until the moment they’re announced as nominees.

‘Every year it’s amusing to me that our films get nominated and people say, ‘What a surprise!“ GKIDS president Eric Beckman told TheWrap. ‘If you watch the movies, it shouldn’t be a surprise.’

'Our whole reason for being as a company is to help expand and elevate the notion of what animation can be,’ Beckman said. 'As wonderful as the Hollywood animated films can be, they’re sort of narrow in their range: They’re mostly CG, PG-rated comedies with big budgets aiming for four-quadrant audiences. And there’s so much more the art form can be.’”